Local Info and movies

Yahoo! India has launched local info site.. This is presently available for Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi/NCR and Chennai. It provides information such as restaurants, pubs, malls, schools, banks etc etc.

Best part is that the users can also write reviews, leave footprints and mark businesses on the map. Check out more details here.

Movies

For movies, we have http://in.movies.yahoo.com/ which lists all movies with news, photos, trailers etc.

Also, Google has its own service - http://www.google.co.in/movies. This site lists all movies in a particular city. You can check all the movies in a city in different theatres, check movies in a theatre or check for a particular movie in all theatres.

Number plate

Managed to grab a shot of this nice number plate trying to spread what is truth according to him.

PS: The no. is blurred on purpose.

Menus for ads

Not sure how new is this or how old is this. But menu tabs of websites are also now used for advertising.

I saw this in http://www.ibnlive.com/ website. You mouse over on “News”, you see a “Swift ad and when you open the section, a “Swift” banner plays too. The other sections that were used for this kind of advertising are “Business – Sponsored by Progressive”, “Health – by Pfizer”, “Blogs – by Optra Magnum”and “Auto – by Honda Accord”. Slowly, all the sections would be sponsored, I reckon. Interesting…

Below image shows a few of them.

Time

Recently, I havnt found time to blog. I did not find anything too interesting too. That’s when I decided to write about time itself. Time is really precious and one cannot find enough of it. Strange it is that many people have achieved so many things in the same time. When I say “same time”, I mean everybody has 24 hours a day. It’s just how you make use of it that makes the difference. Attitude plays a very important role. Yes, this is getting a bit philosophical. If you have the right attitude, you tend to make the best use of time available and so achieve more. With a laidback attitude, you lose time. But can a person not have a laidback attitude at all? It’s possible, but very, very rare. I have seen only countable few of those people who did not have laidback attitude at all. Else, everyone does have a tendency to be lazy some or the other time.

Recently, I had been to a seminar where Mr. RK Misra (Lead India winner) spoke about his journey of life. He’s so meticulous, organized and simple; a real leader. I was really inspired. He also had only 24 hours per day. Isn’t it? But he planned it. He planned to retire at 40 and start social entrepreneurship. He did work his plan.

I used to tell one of my close fren whenever she said that she did not have time –
“You will never have time, you have to make time”. Isnt it sooo true? But how practical is it to MAKE time…….